CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. 695 



Royal, containing three eggs, May 24th, 1890; not observed in the 

 autumn, and think it must be an early migrant in the fall. {Wintle.) 

 A moderately common summer resident around Ottawa. {Ottawa 

 Naturalist, Vol. V.) Common in suitable places in eastern Ontario. 

 A common breeding bird on Wolfe island, near Kingston, Ont. {Rev. 

 C. J. Young.) Regular summer resident at Toronto, Ont. Mr. Kay 

 records one from Port Sydney, Muskoka, taken on May 7th, 1890; 

 I am sure it occurs at Emsdale, Parry Sound, but have not been able 

 to take one. (/. H. Fleming.) An uncommon summer resident at 

 Guelph, Ont. {A. B. Klugh.) A common summer resident in 

 southwestern Ontario, but noted sparingly in the north; nests are 

 usually made on the ground, often in a brush heap and sometimes 

 in shrubs. Eggs, three or four; rarely five; two broods are often 

 raised in a season near London, Ont. {W. E. Saunders.) A common 

 summer resident at Penetanguishene, Ont.; have found their nests 

 situated very near the ground in rose bushes. {A. F. Young.) 



Observed at Pembina, which appears to be near the northern 

 limit of the distribution of this species ; a nest containing four eggs 

 was found at Pembina late in June. {Coues.) A common summer 

 resident of partly open country, more especially in the southern sec- 

 tions of Manitoba. {E. T. Seton.) A common summer resident at 

 Aweme, Manitoba; arrives about May loth and leaves about the 

 middle of September. {Criddle.) A regularly breeding, but not 

 common species in Manitoba and the west, being most abundant 

 along the heavier wooded river courses; noted west to Touchwood 

 hills, Sask., in 1906. {Atkinson.) Uncommon in the timber belts 

 of southwestern Saskatchewan in 1906. {A. C. Bent.) First seen 

 at Medicine Hat., Sask., May 12th, 1894; later they came in numbers 

 and by May 22nd, were very common; in bushes in the creek and 

 river valleys, May 30th; found a nest with four fresh eggs under a 

 log in a heap of dry brush; nest composed of sticks, lined with dry 

 grass ; other nests were taken low down in the brush in close thickets ; 

 one pair was seen late in June in brush along Swift Current creek, in 

 the east end of Cypress hills; observed in thickets at Old Wives 

 creek, at Wood mountain and in the Milk rjver valley and on Milk • 

 river ridge, in southern Alberta, in 1895 ; observed one individual at 

 Moose mountain, almost at timber line, about forty miles southwest 

 of Calgary, July ist, 1897; several seen further south on July 15th, 

 near the source of Elbow river. {Spreadborough.) This species was 



